McVeigh, JG, Finch, MB, Hurley, DA, Basford, JR, Sim, J and Baxter, GD (2007) Tender point count and total myalgic score in fibromyalgia: changes over a 28-day period. Rheumatology International, 27 (11). pp. 1011-1018. [Journal article]
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Tender point count (TPC) is central to fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), and with total myalgic score (TMS) is often used to monitor the patient's condition. This study aimed to determine the stability of TPC and TMS over time, and to examine how well these measures reflected patients' perceptions of their condition. Twenty-four patients with FMS completed the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) and a visual analogue scale (VAS) measuring well-being, at entrance into the study, and 7 and 28 days later. There was no significant change in TPC (P = 0.074), FIQ score (P = 0.291) or VAS (P = 0.079) of well-being with time. However, mean TMS score did change over time (P = 0.021). There was no correlation between total FIQ score and the other measures (all P-values > 0.05). The significant change in TMS over time may reflect the natural fluctuation in the clinical presentation of FMS.
|Item Type:||Journal article|
|Faculties and Schools:||Faculty of Life and Health Sciences|
Faculty of Life and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
|Research Institutes and Groups:||Institute of Nursing and Health Research > Centre for Health and Rehabilitation Technologies|
|Deposited By:||Dr Joseph McVeigh|
|Deposited On:||24 Aug 2010 08:04|
|Last Modified:||28 Feb 2012 16:32|
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